Its violent anti-hero, Alex, is subdued when he undergoes behavior modification treatment administered by the state. Burgess' most famous, though not his favorite, novel was A Clockwork Orange (1962), which was made into a movie. Other of Burgess' well-regarded works include Nothing Like the Sun (1964), a story about William Shakespeare, and Napoleon Symphony (1974), a fictional biography of Napoleon structured to follow the form of Beethoven's Eroica.
When Enderby died in The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, readers were so dismayed that the author "resurrected" him in Enderby's Dark Lady. Those three books were Enderby Outside (1968), The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974), and Enderby's Dark Lady (1984). Enderby, a poet misplaced in society who was introduced in 1963's Inside Mr. Among the most acclaimed were three that followed F.X. Once recovered from his misdiagnosed illness, Burgess continued writing novels. The five novels that Burgess completed during his "terminal year" proved a fitting overview of themes he would return to frequently throughout his career. Enderby, The Wanting Seed and One Hand Clapping. But the prospect of death prompted him to turn fulltime to writing, and during this "terminal year" he completed The Doctor Is Sick, Inside Mr. He was told he probably had a brain tumor and would survive only a year. In 1959 Burgess was ill and returned to England. He took the name Anthony Burgess because he thought his superiors would disapprove of his writing fiction. Devil of a State (1961) is set in Borneo. His first published novels, Time for a Tiger (1956), Enemy in the Blanket (1958), and Beds in the East (1959) are set in Malaya. It was as an observer of these politically and socially complex cultures that Burgess began his writing career. In 1957 Burgess became an educational officer and English language specialist, this time at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien College in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. A variety of the music he wrote there was influenced by the country, notably Sinfoni Melayu for orchestra and brass band, which included cries of Merdeka (independence) from the audience. Here he taught at the Malay College (now Malay College Kuala Kangsar – MCKK), modeled on English public school lines.
In 1954 he joined the Colonial Service as a lecturer in English in Malaya, initially stationed at Kuala Kangsar in Perak. During this period he composed a Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor (1945), which is his earliest surviving musical work.Īfterwards he held a variety of teaching positions including member of the Central Advisory Council for Adult Education in the Armed Forces, Birmingham, 1946-1948, teacher of phonetics, drama, and literature for the Ministry of Education, Preston, Lancashire, 1948-1950, and teacher of literature, phonetics, Spanish, and music, Banbury Grammar School (now Wykham Park Academy), Oxfordshire, 1950-1954. In 1942, however, despite all the antipathy, he was promoted as a sergeant and transferred to the Army Educational Corps.įrom 1943 to 1946 he was a training college lecturer in speech and drama on Gibraltar. He was very unpopular during this time and was resented by many of his peers. In 1940, Burgess spent six weeks as an army novice in Eskbank before he was enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
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